He called on government to also make adequate budgetary allocation available for the continuous payment
of teacher trainee allowances on sustainable basis as promised.
Could today's technology have helped me and my
cohort of teacher trainees more easily share the materials that we spent so much time developing?
``... Previously, we take (sic) the allowance for the 12 months in the year but the letter we received stated that we will be given only for eight months, which means the vacations are taken out but it will be good if the restoration is done in full,» newly elected
president of the Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG), Jonathan Apam, told Onua FM Wednesday.
leadership of Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG) has registered its discontent with regards to principals who consistently extorted monies from teacher trainees in the name of utility bills.
That is not all, the month of September is also going to witness the full realization of more flagship programmes of the NPP government including the
implementation of teacher trainee allowance as well as the nursing trainee allowance among several others.
He said the government was working hard to ensure that the late release of funds that usually incurred the
displeasure of teacher trainees became a thing of the past.
In December last year, a Deputy Minister of Education in the erstwhile NDC government, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, said the
abolition of the teacher trainee allowances had increased enrolment in the colleges of education by 63.8 per cent.
The president further indicated that «
many of the teacher trainees who are in colleges of education today would not have been there if we did not substitute the training allowance with the student loan.
Dozens of teacher trainees besieged the Ministry of Education Wednesday morning to put pressure on the government to pay the feeding grant, which they claimed had not been paid to them.
It's already been criticised for growing too fast and Ofsted voiced concern about the increased number
of teacher trainees possibly reducing quality, as already noted.
Former Member of Parliament for Asokwa, Maxwell Kofi Jumah has rendered an unqualified apology to the Coalition of Concerned Teacher (CCT) over his comments in response to an ultimatum to the president - elect by the group for the
restoration of teacher trainee allowances.
Speaking to Citi News, the National
President of the Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana, Jonathan Apam, explained that an extension of the academic calendar had become necessary in order for the students to stand a better chance of passing their upcoming exams.
The President
of the Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG), Samson Tagba, has described as «unjustifiable» the decision to dismiss 1,400 trainees for failing in some subjects.
A
number of teacher trainees had depended on the allowance for survival while in the colleges of education, but it was the argument of the Mahama administration that it was an impediment to admitting more trainees because of a quota system that prevented the admission of more students.
«The restoration
of the teacher trainee allowance is the first step on the road to ensuring that the teacher enjoys the exulted status it enjoyed in times past.